The Restless Empire

List Three – The Happiest Moments of My Life, so far.

·January 30, 2017
·Dee

When I enthusiastically agreed to this list challenge, I kinda did so without really thinking about how challenging these list would be.... I imagined I'd be smashing out lists and…

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List Two – Favourite Characters

·January 22, 2017
·Dee

Another week... another list (albeit a tad late) and one that I've been wracking my brain over since reading the list. My favourite characters from books or movies? That's a…

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List One – Goals and Dreams for this Year

·January 7, 2017
·Dee

My friend Michaela at Musically Minded Musings sent me a wee challenge for 2017, a challenge to get the creative juices flowing ... which is handy, because my goal for…

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2016 Lessons And A Failed To Do List

·January 2, 2017
·Dee

Each year passes with new lessons learned, we don’t necessarily always grow wiser, but as we get older and slide from one year into the next we definitely do so…

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Mildly Discombobulated

·November 20, 2016
·Dee

I've written and rewritten this piece approximately a million times. I've changed tact multiple times. I've written paragraphs and deleted paragraphs. I think I might have bloggers fatigue... I'm not…

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A.W.O.L

·September 25, 2016
·Dee

I've been AWOL from this blogging lark. I've been busy doing all sorts and pretty busy doing not so much. I've been busy changing jobs, busy holidaying in the UK…

The Good Review

The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck

·September 19, 2016
·Dee

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The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck - How to stop spending time you don't have with people you don't like doing things you don't want to do…

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small talk vs. BIG TALK

·May 28, 2016
·Dee

It wasn't quite "...boldly going where n man has gone before" but it certainly fucking felt like it. I was going out for "dinner with the girls" which is seemingly…

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Oxfam Trailwalker 2016

·May 14, 2016
·Dee

I see all these "take life by the balls" type memes and figure heck yeah... I can do this. I hear Ronda Rousey saying things like "don't be a do nothing…

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Pop Up Globe – Romeo and Juliet

·April 8, 2016
·Dee

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I've not yet been to the Globe Theatre London, but that's okay...having seen Shakespeare's Globe in London isn’t a prerequisite for enjoying the Pop Up Globe near Auckland's Town Hall.…